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ArticleMedical humanities2025

Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation.

Johannes Kögel, Peta S Cook, Nik Brown, Amy Clare, Megan H Glick, Kristofer Hansson, Markus Idvall, Susanne Lundin, Mike Michael, Sofie Á Rogvi and 1 more

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Article in Medical humanities, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Public perception of xenotransplantation and its implication for policy and regulation: lessons learnt from a qualitative study of the Swedish public.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Johannes KögelIndependent, Kottmar, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2103-4643
Peta S CookSchool of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5985-193X
Nik BrownDepartment of Sociology, University of York, York, UK.
Amy ClareDepartment of Science, Technology and Society (STS), School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9948-783X
Megan H GlickDepartment of American Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.
Kristofer HanssonDepartment of Social Work, Malmo University, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmo, Sweden kristofer.hansson@mau.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-2201
Markus IdvallDepartment of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Susanne LundinDepartment of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0038-9661
Mike MichaelSPSPA, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Sofie Á RogviSection for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3148-9377
Lesley A SharpDepartments of Anthropology, Barnard College and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-1218

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on the transplant allocation system, effects on clinical practice and healthcare provision, global trajectories and most importantly the consequences for patients and their families remain unpredictable. Given that xenotransplantation occurs within a societal context and its success or failure will not be confined to technical feasibility alone, it is essential to engage a social sciences perspective to highlight the social implications and emphasise the importance of social research in accompanying future developments.

Indexed as

Social ChangeTransplantation, HeterologousAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedBiotechnologyHumansSocial SciencesSwineTissue and Organ ProcurementAnthropologyMedical humanitiesPublic healthQualitative ResearchSocial science

Identifiers

PMID39993842
PMCPMC11877069

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